[UniMacTech] any good X-serve config & management books?

[Mark Secker]

After a long drought  of being "mac free" (except for those academics 
who did the "you can have my mac when you take it out of my cold dead 
hands" thing) management has finally relented and we've just 
purchased an x-serve.

We've put the new (base model) x-serve through the budget primarily 
as a backup LDAP server (as mid/late last year  a sun update bricked 
both our Sun based LDAP servers losing network authentication 
services for several days)

How ever as the mac user support officer I want to "leverage" the 
server for all it's worth, - update server,  home drive, roaming 
profiles for our mac users,  but also  promoting stuff to users such 
as  iChat video conferencing, pod casting, blogs  etc as it seems our 
hand full of mac users are the main people pushing for these sorts of 
tools.


So basically I'm  looking for recommendations on good technical books 
on setting up and maintaining Apple OSX  server. Need it to cover the 
basics (setup, file sharing etc) but also covering Apple's  stuff 
like  iCal, iChat, Quicktime streaming server et. al.

My hands on experience with Apple servers finished at a beige G3 
running AppleshareIP which died of old age some years back. I'm no 
unix expert but also  not a total newbie and I do have our Unix admin 
guy at my beck and call for primary setup.


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Mark Secker  IT Labs Manager & Computer Support Officer
School of Business IT Services.
ph# 61-8-6488 1855  <mailto:mark at biz.uwa.edu.au>
University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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